Open AccessSzalony protagonista Eurypidesowego „Orestesa” w komentarzach scholiastów
Author(s) -
Jadwiga Czerwińska,
Katarzyna Chiżyńska
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
symbolae philologorum posnaniensium graecae et latinae
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-2305
pISSN - 0302-7384
DOI - 10.14746/sppgl.2021.xxxi.1.6
Subject(s) - mania , literature , motif (music) , phenomenon , psychoanalysis , mental state , art , philosophy , psychology , epistemology , aesthetics , bipolar disorder , psychiatry , cognition
Madness is a constant motif in ancient literature. It was often used by playwrights, including the three greatest tragedians of the Classical Greece: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. One of the most interesting plays dealing with issues of madness is Euripidean Orestes. This play has received numerous commentaries written by scholiasts, who described all aspects of the state of mania. The article is devoted to the analysis of madness and the corpus of texts are scholia describing Orestes’ disease. Commentaries allow us to establish a definition of mania, show its sources and describe its various physical and mental symptoms. The material presented in the article shows how interesting the phenomenon of madness was for the scholiasts.